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VOL. VIII.--NO. 37.
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1875.
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cal interest are solicited.
FRESH TOPICS.
Thekb comes from Raleigh, . C.t
the story of a most revolting butchery.
A fiend named Portin murdered his
wife, cut her head off, unjoin ted her at
every joint, then cut the flesh off her
bones, and attempted to burn up her
body, but did not succeed. Then he
murdered his little boy, a child 8 months
old, in the same manner, and buried the
two bodies in the marsh where they
were found last week by the infuriated
neighbors.
A recapitulation of the work done by
Moody and Sankey in the city of Lou
don foots .np an enormous aggregate.
During the past four months the Chicago
evangelist and his tuneful coadjutor
have spoken Gospel truths and sung
moving hymns at 285 meeting?, which
have been attended by 2,5S0,000 people.
And not less remarkable is Uie tict that
Moody and Sankoy refused any compen
sation at the hands of the committee
having the charge 61 the London meet
ings The reports of customs and internal
revenue receipts for the year ending
June 30, showing the condition of those
branches of the service, have just been
published. There has been a very per
ceptible diminution in the customs re
ceipts, part of .which is ascribed to the
dullness of trade, and part of it to the
heavy smuggling operations carried on
during the year. There is a total deficit
in the Treasury of nearly $20,000,000.
It is proposed, as a means of aiding the
customs revenues, to re-enact the tax
upon tea and coffee.
Thb recent flood in France is said to
have been the most remarkable visitation
of the kind recorded this century. A
district as large as the State of Maine
and as populous, as New York was del
uged . by unprecedentedly violent and
long continued rain storms, occasioning
a loss of life and destruction of property
at which the :" agination is paralyzed.
To 'meet a calamity thus vast in its ex
tent and unprecedented in its violence,
all the resources of French charity and
French administrative skill must indeed
be taxed to their utmost.
Joubnausho Cocbtestes. This is the
kind of pleasantry in which one Louis
ville editor indulges toward another:
" What has bo come of Tracie, our dis-
ungmshed duck-legged and pot-gutted
friend of the Commercial t" Of
course the Commercial couldn't be be
hind hand in courteous remarks, and in
the next number the other editor was
referred to as- " a hump-backed, cross
eyed compromise between a diseased ape
and a foul smelL" It is such choice
flashes of humor as the foregoing which
gives the Louisville and Cincinnati pa
pers their principal charm.
This is from the Chicago limes, of
course : The salary of the Viceroy of
India is little bigger than Beecher's
50,000 per annum, or $250,000. H. B.
Claflin pays his " creditsman," Mr.
Donaldson, formerly President of the
Bank of North America, $100,000 a
year, and many salesmen in New York
wholesale houses get $30,000. And yet
the Milwaukee editor, as he arises from
the contemplation of such figures as
these, goes down stairs and draws his
weekly pittance cheerily, smiling softly
as he murmurs : " Better is $12.50 a
week, and contentment therewith, than
to dwell with a stalled ox on the house
tops." ,
In connection with the Attorney-General's
construction of that provision of
the act of July 14, 1870, relating to the
time allowed for ascertaining damages to
imports, he has also been called upon to
decide whether the increase of duties
under the act of March 3, 1875, is to ap
ply to merchandise which reached the
port of arrival prior to the passage of
the law, but did not reach the interior
port of destination until the law went
into effect. The decision is that the in
creased tariff rate is not to be enforced
in such cases, and thus valuable relief is
anoraea to tne importers of various
"large cargoes which arrived at the ocean
ports in time to escape the extra duties,
but on which it was sought to collect the
new rates simply because the goods had
had not reached their final destination in
the interior.
Thk Postoffico Department has re
ceived a proof of the new design for a
postal card, in place of the one now in
use, and will be ready to supply them
about the middle of August next. They
will . be manufactured by the present
contractors, the Morgan Envelope Com
pany, of Springfield, Mass. On the up
per left hand corner, is the monogram
"TJ. S." in ornamental letters, across
which is a scroll with the words, " Pos
tal Card" in boldface letter. Below
this, in a straight line, in hair letter, is
"Write the address on this side the
message on the other." In the upper
right-hand corner is the stamp, the de
sign of which is a profile bust of the
Goddess of Liberty, surrounded by a
frame work border, the sides of which
represent faoes, connected at the top by
a scroll, bearing the words "United
States postage," and at the bottom, by
curved band, inclosing the words " one
cent." The monogram, letter, and
stamp, in black, will bo finished on pa
per of the color known s feu dc nite,
and the card will have no border.
The new card is of the same size
as tho present one, and is far su
perior to it in point of utility and neat
ness of design.
Ljok out for more earthquakes, An
examination of the history of these sub
terranean disturbances shows that each
great earthquake say of the dimensions
of the recent one at Cucuta, in which'
ten thousand lives were lost has been
followed for a certain period by innu
merable lesser ones. In the summer of
1868, the coast of Chili and Peru were
shaken by terrible earthquakes, in which
many lives and a vast amount of property
were lost, and, just two months later, on
Oct. 21, San Francisco was shaken so
violently that buildings" cracked from
top to foundation, and fissures throwing
forth jots of water opened in the streets.
In the same year, the Hawaiian volca
noes had violent eroptions, and the sub
jects of KmhftniAVift were made sea
sick by the continued swaying of their
islands. In the same, year Vesuvius
opened out with a fresh eruption. The
great eaiuiquakes of Caracas, in Vene
zuela, and New Madrid, :i the United
States, occurred just six months apart.
If wo ore to regard these precedents, an
other great upheaval may be expected
somewhere on the continent between
this time and the 1st of January.
OHIO NEWS.
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A vein of gas has been struck at Scioto
ville, at a depth of 1,035 feet, and it is
thought 'enough can be obtained from
the well to supply the city of Ports
mouth. .
At Marietta, a few days ago, during a
severe storm, the tannery of Jacob Op
penheimcr was struck by lightning, set
ting it on fire and totally consuming the
tannery. Insured. Loss, $8,000.
TfiE frequent and copious rains of the
past few weeks have swollen all the
streams in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
The Licking river commenced rising
rapidly the other day, and was reported
ten feet higher than the Ohio river at the
confluence of those streams. .
J. C. MeliiEB, of SteubenvHle, a rail
road contractor, was robbed of $8,000
while on a recent visit to Cincinnati. He
was stopping at a hotel at the time, and
it is sup-iosed he was watched by some
pickpocket when he drew his money
from the bank.
Dumng a quarrel over family troubles
at Ravenna last week, between a man
named Wagoner and a saloon-keeper
named Martin, Wagoner shot at Martin,
but failed to hit him. Ho was arrested
and placed in jail, but had not been in
jail long when some one, -entering the
room, found he had hung himself, using
the bed-clothes for that purpose.
Reuben Rogers, an old man over
eighty years, was choked to death at the
Broadway Hotel, Cincinnati, a few days
since. The proprietor observed some
thing wrong with him, and helped him
into the reading-room, where he fell to
the floor. A doctor extracted a fish bone
and a piece of fish from his throat, bat
he died immediately. He had just ar
rived from Pittsburgh, and was drunk
when he began to eat.
Tee floating -coal-elevator of Gordon
McClure, moored" at the Cincinnati land
ing, was struck by a large "tree, and im
mudiately sunk, together with four
barges and 30,000 bushels of coal. Quite
a number of other barges were torn from
their moorings and carried downstream.
Ohe fleet carried with it four men, who
were rescued with great risk of life.
The loss by this freshet, as far as has
been ascertained, is estimated at over
$20,000.
Mb. Sheboldt, who lives now in Lucas
county, but who is a native of Bohemia,
has what might be called a baked Bible.
It was formerly the property of his
grandmother, a very devout Protestant,
who was the victim of a good deal of re
ligious persecution. An order was passed
by the government ordering the seizure
of every Bible for burning. When the
old lady saw the officers of the law ap
proaching her house to search it, she
wrapped the book in a batch of dougl'
and deposited it m a hot oven. It was
thoroughly baked before she dare take it
out again, but she saved it from destruc
tion.
Patents have recently been issued to
citizens of this State on improvements
and inventions, as follows : Mail-bag
catchers, Herman M. Dick, Shelby ;
polishin g-wheels, H. Hard, Wadsworth ;
blank books, Ira Reynolds, Dayton ;
sausage-machines, David J. Howenstine,
Canal Fulton ; machines for cutting fats
for rendering, Philip Lee McDowell,
Kenton ; excavating apparatus, Cyrus G.
Force, Jr., Cleveland ; bottle-stoppers
or corks for bottles, John Schriuk, To
ledo ; machines for tenoning spokes,
Joshua R. Coleman and Samuel Myers,
Galion ; apparatus for purifying par-
affine, etc., Francis X. Byerley, Cleve
land ; automatic heat-regulators and
alarms, Selden Allen Day, Bowling
Green ; manufacture of artificial stone,
Luke W. Osborne, Morgan, and E. D.
Merriam, and Peter B. Doty, Conneaut
compounds for sizing paper, James Hog
ben, Cleveland ; construction of canal
boats, William Hnll, New Vienna ; soap-
holders, John P. Bryan, Canton ; seed
drills, John R. Symmens, Hamilton
automatic gates, H. Hammond, Smith
field ; fruit-jars, David E- Stevens and
Richard F. Lumley, Newark ; boot and
shoe crimpers, Chos. Holler, Cleveland
pring-chairs, A. W. Coates, Alliance.
An immense raft was el lipped from
Wabasha, Minn., to St Louis, Mo., last
week. It was composed of 256 cribs,
miking 2,343,265 feet of lumber, after
deducting the usual 10 per cent. In ad
dition to this, there was a top loading
composed of 11,284 bundles of lath,
1,081 palings, 773 thousand shingles,
and 470 sticks of square timber, assorted
sizes ranging from the largest down
the smallest,
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.
The Now York banks hare received notice to
look out for forged notes on the Bank of En
gland and Bank of Franco.
Hon. Wm. A. Foster, Chief-Justice of the
Vermont Circuit Court, was wounded in the
ami by shot being fired in the car window,
while riding between Concord and Boston re
cently. No clue to the perpetrator of tho act.
At Pittsburgh, Ta., last week, while the
family of John S. Bays were at dinner at the
tlouongahela House their rooms were entered
by a thief and robbed of $2,000 in diamonds
and jewelry.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Lawrence,
Uasi., have published a caid condemning the
rioters in the sevcrost terms, and expressing
the hope that they will be punished to the full
extent of the lair.
A whole family named Hcssler, consisting of
father, mother ana three children, were killed
last week in Montgomery county, Pa., by the
falling of their house during the prevalence of
a tornado.
A gentleman in New York City has brought
a case to test the constitutionality of the
amended Postal law, claiming that it originated
in the Senate.
James L. Bailey shot and killed his father, in
New York city, last week. The murdered man
was a wealthy and prominent citizen, and has
for many years been connected with tho Hud
son Biver railroad.
Pomcroy, the boy murderer, of Boston, has
written the story of his life, in which he re
tracts all his former confessions. He claims to
have been goaded by the police into making a
confession of being guilty of the crime for
which he wi i first arrested, and that he was
entirely innocent.
The great tbii teen-mile swimming match be
tween J. B. Johnson, of England, and Thomas
Coyle, of Chester, Pa., for the championship of
the world, came off on the Doleware river, at
Philadelphia, last week, and was won by the
Englishman. Coyle became exhausted and gave
np on the tenth mile. The entire distance Era am
by Johnson wes 1014 miles, and the time three
hours and ten- minutes. After beinj taken
from the water he was as fresh as when he
entered, and began dancing a jig.
Hugh Donahue, of Springfield, Mass., has
just accomplished the nnpara"eled feat of wak
ing 1,100 miles in 1,100 consecutive hoors.
During the last few day of bis weary tramp he
was very natrons, and slmcotpiostrat' Iby loss
of sleep, and fire-arms bid to be dischaiged to
wake hin for his bonny toil.
The West.
Prof. Donaldson, accompan-'ed by an Evening
Journal reporter, left Chicago in a balloon for
an aerial voyage on Thuradaj evening, July 15,
going in a northeasterly direction. Nothing
has been seen or heard of them nn to Saturday,
the 17th, and the impression prevailed in Chi
cago that the unfortunate aeronauts had been
wrecked by the storm that swept over Lake
Michigan on Thursday night.
Sprague, who murdered a saloon-keeper,
named DwycT, in Holden, Mo., last year, and
who afterwards escaped, has been convicted
of murder. The murderer will have to serve
two years in the Missouri Penitentiary before
being punished Tor the murder.
The statement of John D. Lee, of Mountain
Meadow massacre netoriety, exonerates Brig-
ham Young and the leaders of the Mormon
Church from the charge of being connected
with the massacre.
Crop reports from Dakota are very encourag
ing. The wheat yield will be tins year about
7,009,000 bushels.
Ionia, Neb., has a volcano, from which great
clouds of smoke and steam ascend. The heat
is rapidly increasing, and it is expected the
mountain will soon be red hot.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, states that
the substance of John D. Lee's confession is
that thirty Mormons, with the assistance of a
large number of Indians, decoyed the emigrants
from their intrenchmeuts by a flag of truce ;
that all were murdered except seventeen child
ren ; that tee deed was done under the orders
of the leaders of the Mormon church ; that he
took the news of the massacre to Brigham
Young, who deplored the transaction, and said
it would bring disaster on the Mormon people.
The statement of Lee, so far as known, only
confirms the previous reports in regard to the
massacre.... Dnring the progress of a fire at
Cincinnati, a few days ago, the Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department, Enoch G. Megrue, and
ten firemen were buried beneath the ruins of a
falling building. - Fortunately only one of
them, Richard Holcomb, was killed, though
nearly all were sadly bruised. Chief Megrue's
injuries were the most serious, but hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
A Laporte (Ind.) clairvoyant claims that
Donaldson and Grim wood, the missing balloon-
ists who recently ascended from Chicago, are
not lost. He says the air ship came down on
the east side of LaLe Michigan, at some point
where two lakes are connected by a stream, on
some part of au island, in the midst of sand
bills aud pine trees. That in coming down one
of the men was cut under the eye and on one
arm, the other being unharmed. He says they
are alive, aud will shortly be heard from.
Tho Chicago Journal thinks there is i
chance that the lost balloon is still driftinj
about in the high upper atmosphere, its pas
sengers lifeless, and the vessel at the mercy of
the currents. If bo, it will, of course, ulti
mately descend to the earth and be heard from
Edmous and Cochrane, accused of participa
tion in the Vandalia railroad murder at Long
Point, III., have been fully identified and com
mitted to trial without bail.
The trial of John D. Lee, for the Mountain
Meadow massacre, is in progress at Beaver,
Utah. The jury consists of eight Mormons and
four Gentiles.
A terrific explosion occurred the other day
the paper mill of Close & Son, at Iowa City,
Iowa, resulting in the death of five workmen,
the bodies of three of whom were blown a dis
tance of 500 feet across the tops of houses,
The mill was valued at $250,000, and was badly
injured.
The South.
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Much excitement exists over tho report
the prevalence of yellow fever at Norfolk, Vx,
and a quarantine has been ordered against tho
citv.
Considerable excitement prevails in St. Louis
and vicinity over the arrest of Gen. Waddv
Thompson. He is one of the Missouri Peni
tentiary lessees, and was arrested at Jcfferton
City a few days ago on a requisition from the
Governor of Tennessee, charging him with
horse-stealing, larceny and perjury. Between
Sheriffs, lawyers and writs of habeas corpus
General is tossed about like a football, and it
probable he will never reach Tennessee.
The reports of yellow fever at Norfolk, Yi
turn out to bo untrue.
The Baltimore Board of Public Works
sued the Baltimore American for libel, and de
mand $30,000 compensation for damage sus
tained.
The defalcation in tho Internal Revenue Col
lector's office at Louisville is found to reach
very rospectable sum of $75,000, instead
4U5.000, as first reported.
At Columbia, 8. C the jury in the case
Parker, the defaulting SWte TrMimrer, ren
dered a verdict that 475,000 is tke amount of
the deficit.
It is reported that a terrible fight occurred in
Perdido, Escambia county, Ala., a few days ago,
between two families named Hallett and Byers,
in which six men, consisting of the father and
two sons on each side, were engaged. Five of
tho party were killed outright, while the Bixth
and last had a load of buckshot in bis side,
which most cause death. It was an old family
feud. f
E. G. Johnson, a revenue officer and mem
ber, of the Florida Legislature, was recently
Bhot dead by unknown assassins at a distillery
near Fernandina, in that State.
Ex-Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has
been elected President of the Arkansas In
dnstiil University.
E. Nutt'ng & Co., stave rrowfactnrers, of
Indianapolis, have fail' 1. L'abihtie, $200,
000 j assets, 150, 000. . . .'-,.-,
Washington.
The Secretary of the Interior lias appointed
Member of Congress-elect N. H. Van Yoorhes
of Ohio ; Judge L C. Parker, of Missouri ; aud
Indian-Inspector Kemblo, as a Commission to
visit the Osages and examine into their con
dition. Gen. H. H. Wells succeeds Fisher as United
Stales Attorney for Uie District of Columbia.
The now Stute Department building has
been completed, and was occupied by Secretary
Fish last week.
The Postmaster-General is in earnest in his
proceedings against mail contractors who fail
in their obligations. Suits have been com
menced against the bondsmen of over forty
contractors who failed to comply with the terms
of their contracts.
President Grant paid a flying visit to the Cap
ital on Wednesday, held a three hours' cabinet
meeting, at which all the Ministers were pres
ent except Belknap, and returned to Long
Branch the same afternoon.
At a recent meeting of the Cabinet the Ca-
ban question was discussed, aud it is authori
tatively announced that the United States win
no longer maintain a strict neutrality, bnt
acc9de belligerent lights at least to the strug
gling patriots.
General.
Dispatches received from all parts of the
country, East, West, North and South, report
an unusually abundant harvest in corn, rye,
barley, oats and potatoes, with a fair yield of
wheat, while the yield of the grasses is said to
be' enormous. The failure, noted re in com
paratively few and limited localities. A large
n-oportion of the crop is already harvested.
The July returns to the Department of Agri
culture show that the acreage in corn is about
8 per cent, greater than last year. New En
gland has reduced her acreage about 11 per
cent., and the Pacific States about 1 per cent.
All the great corn-growing regions havo in-
eased their acreage, the Middle States 2 per
rent, the South Atlantic States 3, the Gulf
States 10. inland Southern States 12, States
noith of the Ohio 7. States west of the Missis
sippi 14. The eond!tion of the crop's below
f'0 avenge in Uie New England, Middle and
South At' antic Spates, the minimum condition,
82, being in Bhod3 Inland. Florida and Ala
bama are also below the average, but the other
Gulf States and inland Southern States are
above, the maximum, 112, being in Mississippi.
All other States, except Missouri, 103, arc below
the average, minimum condition, 82, being in
Wisconsin.
ChewerB of " tho weed " will take comfort in
the announcement by the Department of Agri
culture that the tobacco crop promises a heavy
yield.
Political.
President Grant has made tho following in
ternal revenue appointments: Gangers
Thomas T. Davis, Seventh Indiana District;
Enoch Stilhvell First Missouri District; John
W. Lane. Second Kentucky District; James Mc-
Elioy, Seventeenth Pennsylvania District.
Storekeeper Wobster W. Castro, Seventh In
diana District.
A call has been tesued in Indiana for a con
vention to meet at Richmond, on August 12, to
form a new party sympathizing with the prin
ciples of the Cleveland National Convention.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
has indefinitely postponed, by a vote of 102 to
82, the proposition to give women the right
to vote in Presidential elections.
The Democratic State Convention of Main
land, in session at Baltimore last week, nom
inated John L. Carroll for Governor and Levin
Woodford for Comptroller of the Treasury.
Hon. L. Q. C. Laman has been nominated for
Congress in Mississippi.
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The Public Powem bill has passed the
French Assembly by a vote of 530 yeas to 30
nays.
A biooay religious not rccenUy occurred in
the city of San MigouL in Salvador. A mob
attacked tho Cabilao, and liberated some 20
persons. They then proceeded to assault the
small garrison, killed Gens. Espinosa and Cas
tro, cut the former to pieces, and threw the
pieces at each other; spUt the skull ef Gen.
Castro and throw him over a wall, where he
was picked up by his mother, and died in three
days. The garrison were nearly all assassin
ated, aud many prominent citizens killed.
After this the fanatic mob set tire to gome six
teen houses with kerosene. It fortunately
happened that H. B. M. ship Fan tome was at
La Union. She landed her marines, which al
lowed a garrison there, united with some troops
from Amapala, in Honduras, to march to the
relief of San Migeul, and put down the mob.
Lady Franklin, the venerable widow of Sir
John Franklin, is dead.
The American riflemen now in England have
succeeded in carrying off the St Leger stakes
at Wimbledon, beating picked marksmen from
the entire kingdom of Great Britain. The ac
curacy of their aim at both the long and short
range was a matter of astonwlunent to the
English.
A London firm that recently failed for sev
eral millions has got Into trouble. Its mem
bers have been arrested and sent to Newgate
for trial on tho charge of obtaining about
million by false pretenses. English courts do
not appear to treat big thieves with as much
consideration as do American jurists.
Iteports of the floods in England represent
the damage done as immense. In many sec
tions not only the growing crops, but those
crops already harvested havo been destroyed.
The returns of the agriculturists there will
exceedingly small, and the English people will
have to depend to a groat extent upon tho
American markets for a supply of brcadstun's.
Happily w o are in a condition to supply
their wants, and there need be no suffering
account of a scarcity.
Aloxander and William Collie, of a London
firm which recently suspended, have been ar
raigned, charged with putting afloat ?8,000,000
of bogus paper on the market The London
and Westminster Bank loses $1,500,000 by these
fraudulent bills.
There was a lively scene iu the British House
of Commons the other day, during the discus
sion of the Shipping bill. Mr. Flimsol, the
philanthropist charged that some of the vessel
owners purposely sent out uuscaworthy vessels
in the expectation of gaining the insurance
and intimated that members of the House
Commons were guilty of such practices. The
scene following this declaration is described as
unparalleled. Tho Speaker, on motion of Mr.
Disraeli, ordered Mr. Plimsoll to be removed
from the House, but the latter, undismayed by
the howls of indignation, continued speaking
and shaking his fiat at the Government benches.
A fellow-member, after Plimsoll bad left the
Chamber, apologized for the latter's intemper
ate harangue, by pleading temporary insanity.
Destructive rain-storms are reported in Si
lesia.
The Canadian government has received in
formation of another rebellion in Manitoba;
that there lias been a goneral uprising of the
ha'f-brccds and Indians, and that some of the
mounted polico have been killed.
The Irish riflemen have won the Elcho Chal
lenge Shield, defeating the English and Scotch
teams. Tho Americana .kept target for the
Irishmen and superintended their shooting,
which probably accounts for their success.
THE MISSING AERONAUTS.
Nothing Heard from Donaldson or Grimwood
—Belief That They Perished in Lake
Michigan.
[From the Chicago Journal, 19th.]
The last luigeriDg hope to which the
friends of Donaldson and Giimwood
have clung so earnestly, despiie the stern
facts which almost lorbade tope, has
died away, and the two must now be
given up for lost For four days we
have been listening intently to every
click of the telegraph, anxiously inquir
ing of every incoming vessel, assid
uously hunting down every rumor, no
matter how idle, pud teoaciouilv cherish
ing every theory of safety and deliver
auce to them, only to be confronted at
test with the sorrowtul reality which
must now, we fear, be acknowledged as
such, that they met then- death m the
terrific hurricane of Thursday night,
and are buried beneath the waters of
the' lake. Exactly how they met their
doom it ia- impoaoiblo that we should
ever know. Undoubtedly in the storm,
which a frail airship like the one which
carried them could, by no possibility
withstand. Cat how kreg and desper
ately they smuggled for l?e, bow fliey
cheered each other so long as they re
mained together: in the baste; in
which they were borne - on their
journey, how they recalled their
friends on the laud, and regretted
the venturesome spirit that induced
them to take their lives in their
hands and go out on ' such
a perilous journey, are all matters
of the merest conjpoiure. Th balloon,
caught ia the gale, diiven hither and
thither like a tiesperaie creature gone
mad, could not have made a long resist
ance. When that became useless to
them, either by being torn in pieces or
being cut loo3e by themselves, it reft the
two men engaged in a fearfully unequal
struggle for life ; a hard and valiant
struggle no doubt it was against wind
and wave. They could hear only the
thuudei ii.gs of the storm and the
screaming and hissing of the waters ;
they saw only the vivid flashes of the
lightning aud the foaming heads of the
waves. The wilune3S of such a scene
can ODly be imagined. The struggle
could not have continued long the odds
were too great
There it good cause to believe that for
some reason or other, Sonaldton intend
ed, before star'ingoa Ciis last fainl trip,
to attempt a vojage across the lake.
Whether it was because he had been up
braided for not making a more sensa
tional tlip on the previous day, as is cir
cumstantially asserted, ii unknown. But
if he only contemplated an ascent simi
lar to that of Wednesday, why was it
that ho insisted that only one of the
newspaper men should accompany him f
Two were intending to go ; they were
actually in the car, but at the last mo
ment one was compelled to get out and
remain behind. Tney had 900 pounds
of sand, 150 pounds of which might
have been left and another passen
ger taken, had the aeronaut not
been intent on making . an unusual
performance. But of that intent his com-
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tuuon, TTunwuou, tuiu ilia irieuui uau
no knowledge. Ho and they only knew
that the day before four newspaper men
went up, remained an hour or two
and descended in safety. There was
apparently no reason why this should
not be repeated with the same results.
And it was with this expectation, aud
in no spirit of recklessness, and with no
thought that any unusual feat was to be
attempted, that Grim wood was induced
to go on this journey of disaster and
death. However unjust this was to Grim
wood, poor Donaldson, so far as he was
responsible, is as far beyond the reach
of censure, as the victim is beyond re
calling the resolution made in ignorance
of faots which should have been divulged
to him.
[From the Chicago Journal, July 21.]
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To the universal inquiry " Have you
heard from the balloon ?" there is the
same monotonous answer of yesterday,
the day before and every day since it went
out of sight Nothing has been seen or
heard that throws any light on its fate. If
seems most extraordinary that if it went
into the lake, as is now the almost uni
versal opinion in Chicago, no certain
traces of it or the men who were in it
have been discovered. As one of the.
lake men remarked this morning, the
vessels that have gono out from and
come into Chicago and other ports dur
ing tho last six days bave been so nu
merous that every square mile of the
surface of Lake Michigan has been
crossed again and again. And yet
with the exception of the re
ports, which were not verified by any
tangible evidence, of three boats which
reached this port on last Sunday, not
relic or trace of balloon or men has been
seen. Those who have held to the
opinion that they got over the lake and
went into the wilderness, find their hopes
of the men ever being seen alive fast giv
ing way, too. For if they came down
iu the forest they have certainly not yet
succeeded in finding civilization, while
exposure and hunger must by this time
have told upon them fearfnlly, if indeed
they have lived so long. If there was
any hopo of their being restored yester
day, it is less to-day. But it would bo
an intense relief to sutTerirjcr friends
have some certain indication of their
fate. It is curious to noto tho flying
rumors, and especially of balloons
being seen flying through the air
in one direction and another
varidus parts of tho county. -No person
can be found on the street but has either
lately seen a balloon in the air himself
seen some one who has. For instance,
a balloon was plainly seen going over the
city in a southeasterly direction yester
day morning, r rom various., points
Indiana there are similar reports of flying
balloons.
It may be that the balloon reported
having been seen at several points in the
air is the one sought, aud that it is wan
dering through the air with the bodiys
the men, who may have died from escap
ing gas or from exposure.
Useful Recipes.
FOR THE SHOP, HOUSEHOLD, AND FARM.
In the Rhine district, grape vines are
kept low and as near the soil as possible.
so that the heat of the sun may be re
newed tacE upon them from the ground;
and the ripenine; is thus carried on
through the night by the heat radiated
from the earth.
A non-drying cement of great tenacity,
useful to fastening plates of glass so as
to exclude air, but which may be easily
separated, is formed by adding freshly
slaked lime to double its weight of india
rubber, and heating to about 400 deg.
Fah., when the rubber will be converted
into a glutinous mass.
To stop new boots equeaking, drive a
peg in vue middle of the sole.
To extract the silver from old watch
cases and similar articles composed of
alloys, dissolve in nitric acid and pre
cipitate the chloride of silver with a so
lution of common salt The silver is
reduced to e pure state by mixing the
chloride vtli'a an equal weight of bicar
bonate o" soda and smelting in a com
mon sand crucible.
To bleach glue, bop in moderately
strong acetic acid for two days, drain,
place on a sieve, and wshwell with cold
water. Dry on a warm plate.
Diamond cedent lor glass or china,
is nothing more than innglass boiled in
water to the consistence of cream, with a
small portion of rectified spirit added.
It must be warmed wheu used.
It is said that dry roi, in cellar timbers
can be prevented by coating the wood
with whitewash to which has been added
enough copperas to give the mixture a
pale yellow hue.
Mercurial steam (ranges can be kept
clean by putting a little glycerine on the
surface of the mercury. This serves as
a lubricator of both glass and metal, and
P--event theiv contict
Toguard belting azainst being gnawed
by rats, nnoiut it with castor Oil.
Old engravings, woodcuts, or printed
matter that have turned yellow may be
rendered white by first washing carefully
in water containing a little hyposulphite
of soda and then dipping for a minute in
Javelle water. To prepare the latter,
put four pounds bicarbonate of soda in
a kettle over a fire: add one gallon of
boiling t ater, and let it boil for fifteen
minutes. Then btir in one pound of pul
verized chloride of lime. When cold,
the liquid can be kept in a jug ready for
use.
An excellent liquid glue is made by
dissolving hard glue in nitric ether. Tho
ether will take np only a certain amount
of the glue; so that the solution cannot
be made too thick. If a few bits of pure
india rubber, cut into scraps the size of
buckshot, be added, the mixture will,
when dry, resist dampness to a consid
erable degree.
borne brands of albumen paper are
subject to blisters when taken from the
hypo solution. To prevent this, remove
the prints, when fixed, fioja the hypo
into a dish of salt water (a handful of
salt in a gallon of water) before the regu
lar washing, and allow them to remain
therein ior several minutes. hcicntijic
American.
By Rail to Mexico.
St Louis rejoices, and probably not
without cause, that the negotiations for
the construction of the Mexican and the
United States railroad are at length
brought to a satisfactory conclusion, and
that it is possible speedy completion will
pour into he!' lap Lie varied products of
Central AmeJea. On the 29th of May
the Mex'can Congress lalified by an al
most unaniu-'ous vote the contact for
this road coiicladed tome months before
by Mexir j r jiT the International Railroad
Company ol Texas. .The gauge of the
road is to bo four feeL and eght and a
half inchf-i pud it , ieuth between six
and seven iiun Jred m-'es. Commencing
at tho city ol Leon it will run on a route
not yet p eufcely derminel to the Bio
urande, tuere to oonnect wriui tne Texas
International load. This road lacks
nearly three hundred miles of comple
tion, bat, prosecuted vigorously, will be
finished within . jtnve years. The com
pany which receives the valuable Moxi
can concession inquired to deposit a
bond for $200,000 within six months
from the passage of the law, and must
obligate itself to complete one hundred
and twesty-four miles of survey within
eighteen months, nd Uie enure survey
within three years; to commence work on
the Rio urande, wnhiu three years; to
complete sixty-two miles of road within
fifteen months after the commencement of
the work; to complete seventy-five miles
every year thereafter, and to finish; the
line within nine years of entering upon
uie work. The Mexican government is
disposed to be generous, but insists
upon speed. If the road is completed
in eight years the company will be paid
a premium of $100,000; if in seven years,
$400,000; if in six years, $900,000; if in
five years, $1,600,000. Aside from these
provisional premiums the company is to
receive from tne government a donation
of $15,288 per mile, is to be exempt
from taxation for fifty years, aud to be
entitled to a full rebate for fifteen years
on all articles required for construction
and operation. Thus bolstered by sub
sidies and incited by premiums the com
pany, it is thought will hurry the road
toward completion. Mexico will be an
immediate gainer by this enterprise.
Rich as she is in mineral and agricultural
resources the remoteness of her interior
districts from a great market has shack
led industry, which, now that communi
cation with the outside world is facili
tated and transportation cheapened, will
experience a new life. Chicago limes.
A Danbury Occupation.
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Knocking worms from apple trees is a
common occupation at present. In im
petuously removing a nest from a tree
on Spring street yesterday, two of the
worms fell outside the nest and went
down Uie neck of the woman who was
watching the operation. She emitted t
piercing scream, and went plunging un
der the tree, uttering shriek after shriek.
The husband, knowing nothing of the
cause cf the outbreak, very discreetly
took to the cellar and crawled back of
cider-vinegar barrel to wait for the dis
appearance" of what he firmly believed to
be a serious attack of insanity. The un
fortunate woman pranced and screamed
until she brought together some sixty-
five neighbors of her own sex wbo were
determined to afford her immediate re
lief until they learned what was the mat
ter, when they precipitately retired out
sido the fence, but showed there was no
no abatement of sympathy by askiug
her individually and unitedly why she
didn't take the dreadful things out At
this juncture Mr. Rouse, the baker.
drove by, and he soon restored peace
with the aid of two of the more courage
ous neighbors. Tne husband now mi
expectedly appeareiM rom the cellar, and
explained his course by saying that he
had on his best coat, and was atnud that
she would tear j( in her frenzy. Dan
wry jxews,
Resuscitating the Drowned.
It is not improbable that many drowned
persons might be resuscitated, who are
left to perish for want of intelligent and
timely treatment. The rules proper in
such cases, which have been tested by
long experience, nave been so often pub
lished that they ought to be generally
known. By way of giving a practical
uiusuauon 01 tnem, we oopy, substan-
uuiy, a case mentioned Dy tne writer of
that interesting little work recently pub
lished under the title of "The French
at Home." In his walk one morning he
says he saw a man pulled out of the
water, apparently drowned. He was
laid on the right side, the face turned
toward the ground, and the jaws gently
opened to facilitate the escape of water.
Several times the head was placed a lit
tle lower than the rest of Uie body for
the same purpose, but only for a few
seconds at a time. In the meanwhile
there was a regular manipulating process
to induce breathing, which consisted in
pressing the abdomen, stomach and
sides of the chest, but softly. The ef
forts were without effect; the man looked
as if he had seen the last of earth.
Then the prostrate figure was carried to
the nearest station for the rescue of the
drowned. Here the man was stripped
and wiped dry, and he was laid, turned
on the right side, between two blankets
on a straw mattress. The manipulating
process was resumed, with intervals of
about a quarter of a minute between
each pressure of the body, the pressure
Demg repeated fifteen or twenty nines,
followed by a suspension of ten minutes.
Twenty minutes were passed in this way,
when a physician employed on this kind
of service appeared and took charge of
the case. A warming-pan filled with hot
water was passed over the bodv outside
of the blanket, particularly over the pit
of the stomach- and the sides of the
chest. This was alternated with a gen
tle friction of hot woolen mittens, and
the naked hands and the soles of the
feet and palms of the hands were vigor
ously rubbed. An operator breathed
into Uie mouth of the man by means of
a tube. These efforts also proving in
vain, the physician had recourse to the
introduction of tobacco smoke into the
intestines. In about ten minutes the
man gave a feeble sign of life, where
upon all manipulation was discontinued
lest it should interfere with the natural
movement. Soon he showed a desire to
vomit, which was assisted by a feather
introduced into the throat How long
the whole process lasted is not skated.
but the reader will see that it was
lengthy. A few days after the writer at
tended a ball, and among the most lively
dancers he saw the drowned man. Bos-ion
Journal.
Resuscitating the Drowned. Burning of a Russian Town--200 Lives
Lost.
A Petersburg letter to the London
Standard says :
The fire which destroyed the town of
Morschansk began about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon in one of the faubourgs, at a
distance of nearly naif a mile from Uie
town proper, and within a few hours the
whole town, over an extent of five versts.
was a prey of the flames. A violent
wind drove the flames in all directions,
causing them to overlap all the open
squares and even the river.
As tne lire grew Uie wind became a
tempest, and enormous plauks and sheets
of iron, torn from the falling houses,
were hurled as high as the second story
of houses still standing. Caces of goods
allowed to float along the river were
burned on the water. Some of the pa
pers of the public offices have been
found at a distance of Bixty versts from
the town, and the glow of the fire light
ed np the horizon to a distance of ninety
versts. The fire spared about a hundred
wooden houses at one end of the town,
but of the brick buildings hardly ten have
escaped.
All Uie public edifices, with tne excep
tion of the school and several churches,
have been destroyed. The destruction
of property has been entire. Many of
the inhabitants trusted to cellars aud
vaults, bnt they nearly all fell in. As
the fire spread, furniture and other ef
fects were removed to gardens and other
open spaces, but in vain ; the names
soon reached them and reduced all to
ashes. Only one of tho corn depots was
saved.
It is calculated that 1,000 buildings
have been burned, and that the loss can
not be less than 5,000,000 roubles.
About 200 lives were lost, and several
thousand persons were wounded.
ouccor, in Uie snape of provisions,
clothes, and money, was instantly for
warded from Tamboff, Riezan, and other
places, to the unfortunate citizens of
Morschansk, literally wandering about
the woods or sheltering under carts, having
lost everything, aud the- number of
the homeless and destitute exceeded 10,-
000. Three days after the fire the cor
poration of the town petitioned the gov
ernment for a loan of 4,000,000 roubles,
to be redeemed iu thirty days.
Results of the Harvest.
Generally the reports of the condition
of the crops are encouraging. Undoubt
edly there are large sections of country
m which great damage nas been done by
unfavorable weather or iuscctn, but, tak
ing the country as a whole, the prospects
now are that the aggregate yield of farm
crops will bo large. The grasshoppers
are not reported doing any damage in
any part of Uie country, and unless Uiey
return later in the season the aggregate
loss will not seriously affect the yield of
the crops of the West, serious as the loss
has been in many counties. As a rule
the Colorado potato beeue is doing less
iniurv in the West than last year.
has made its appearance in New England
where it has excited much alarm. The
"new" potato bugs reported in different
parts of Illinois, are not new, and have
thus far never proven destructive over
large sections. With favorable weather
during the remainder of the season there
is good reason to expect a Harvest wnicn
will do much to increase business.
Western Rural.
A Knowing Boo. A quiet gamo
draw,' quarter-ante, was in progress re
cently at Chioo. California. One of the
party managed to get a heart flush, ace
at the head, out of the deck, and laid
in his lan. waiting a chance to play
Presently the chance came. The guile
less gentleman counted out forty dollars
better with ono hand, and quietly went
down with the other hand for that flush.
It wasn't there. He had to play
original hand. Two of the party called
his forty dollars better, and one ot them
in the show-down produced the identical
heart flush that he had been at such
pains to secure. He knew it was
same, for the ace was crimped just as
bad done it. Tho secret was that
Wetherbee'sdog, " Patsey," had quietly
DHt bis nose in, picked up the flush, car-
I vu,d it around to his friend, wagged,
1 tail knowingly, and walked off.
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GEN. BUB'S GRAND REVIEW.
" With a rnb-a-dnb-dnb snd a rnb-a-dnb-dnh.
That man is the drummer; he stands on a tub.
Attention, attention !' the General cries;
Oh, loot at his sword, at his war-horse t Myeyea
And see tha. brave soldier who carries the fiaiG
They call him the ensign ; you'll not see h.m tag
When the battle begins, and the drummer so hardy
Beats rub-e-dnb-ub and a rub-a-dub-dsrdy.
Attention, I thay !' Now tremble, each man,
that la ih. f-aneral 1-AHiRt who CSH '-
Bat the drummer keeps on with his rub-a-dub-dub.
' Now thilenoe, I thay !' cries Gen. Bub.
Pear me! What cornea next? Is It time for the
fight;
I sbndder to think of the terrible sight
Of the men trodden down in Uie thick of the battle ;
Of the smoke and the -slaughter, the dim and the
rattle.
" Nay, dont be afraid ; for Jane say to Neddy,
Too must put off the bottle, for dinner is ready.'
Oh, what a relief new ! No wounded, ao killed.
Not even a drop of brave blood had beea spilled.
The ensign, the drummer, and Gen. Bub,
Are all put to rout by the mention of grub." '
Wit and Humor.
A usefutj thing iu the long run
Breath.
As thb young lady remarked about the
infant, " How sweet ; but how bald for
one so young 1"
" Youn feet are very stylish," said a
man to his friend, whose feet were cov
ered with bunions. ' No, not stylish,
but exceedingly nobby," was the good
natured reply.
"Ybstebpay afternoon," says a Ten
nessee paper, ' 'the handsome Miss J ennie
Taylor was borne to the cemetery before
a large concourse of grieving men, wo
men and venicles.
Thb wife of "Max Adeler" weighs
200 pounds, and the Brooklyn Argus
says when Max asks her, "Shall I help
you over tne fencer sne replies ue
murely, "No ; help the fence.'r
An Indian corn planter has discovered
that a crow knows twice as much as an
eagle, and he wants the crow adopted as
the National emblem. This isn't suffi
cient caws for .banishing the eagle.
Qotn, the actor, being asked by a lady
why there are more women in the world
than men, replied : " It is in conformity
with the other arrangements of nature
we always see more of heaven than
earth." . ,
In the streets of Leicester one day
Dean Swift was accosted by a drunken
weaver, who, staggering against him, ;
said : " I have been spinning it out."
" Yes," a-id the Dean, " and now you
are reeling it home."
A Chinese young lady is an applicant
for a teacher's place in one of the. public
schools of San Francisco, thinking,
properly, no doubt, that she can
"snatchee small boy bal-headed allee
same Melican girl."
Now, see what a man out in Nevada
has been doing. He went and buried
his wife in a silver coffin. Every woman
hereafter will think that her husband
never did love her if he doesn't promise
to lay her away in the silent tomb in a
silver coffin. That Nevada man deserves
the execrations of every husband in the
land.
Babnum's balloon tamer, Donaldson,
recently took a Western reporter on a
voyage with him, and after they had
got above the clouds the reporter fell
out. Donaldson was horror-stricken, and
demanded immediately to find the scribe
inditing an account of " How it Feels to
t all from Heaven. me una strucK on
his cheek.
A Boston drummer, walking along
one of Uie streets oi Houston, lexas,
reached under his coat-tails for his
handkerchief, and was enabled to keep
his hand in that position until he got to
his hotel, as every other man he met
drew a bead on him with a navy revol
ver, and threatened to send him hell
ward" if he ventured to "pull that 'ere
pop."
Sheeidan once told a story of Uie ex
quisite good breeding of a bankers
clerk, of whom the wit had borrowed
some money, and to wnom ne actually
repaid it "Didn't he "look aston
ished?" asked a discourteous friend.
" No." said Sheridan : he was lust going
to look astonished, when he remembered
his manners, and swept away Uie money
as unconcernedly as if he had not given
up any idea of seeing it again."
Aiexantjek Dtmas, the younger, when
ntndent in the Latin Quarter, desired
to make a good repast with a companion,
but found on consulting his purse that it
contained only five francs. "Wait,"
said he to his companion, " while I run
up-stairs and borrow live more from la
fatner, and with the ten we shall dine
like Princes. ""Weil," said the waiting
man on his return, " have you got the
ten ?" " I haven't even the first five,"
answered ho, ruefully ; father is better
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lUi UU1UWUI (mm. a.
Mountain Water.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prise claims that that city has the bee
and purest mountain water in the world
brought to it from Uall s crees, lar up m
the Sierras, near Lake Tahoe. It is car
ried in a flume four miles long to a spur
of- the Washoe Valley, at a point two
thousand one hundred feet above the
track of the Virginia and Truckee rail
road. It is thence carried across tho
valley in a twelve-inch pipe, in Uie form
of an inverted siphon, which reaches a
point on the opposite side of Uie valley,
fifteen hundred and forty feet above the
railroad. The siphon is nearly seven
miles long, and follows the irregular line
of tho ground. Over a million pounds
of rolled iron were used in the construe- '
tion of the pipe, which is provided wiUi
blow-off and air cocks at many points on
its route. From the outlet of the siphon
the water is carried in another flume to
Virginia City. The water before enter
ing the pipe passes through wire screens
and charcoal, and reaches the city com
pletely purified and ready for use. U.ne
supply is estimated at two million gal
lons per day, bnt this amount can
be increased by using the full head of
water.
New Use for Watermelons.
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Mistaken kindness sometimes pro
duces embarrassing results, as was the
case in Houston, Texas, the other day.
A lady fainted suddenly in a street car
in which chanced to bo an amiable
darkey, carrying a huge watermelon.
Seeing the demands of the case, the
darkey acted promptly. His watermelon
had been on ice all day, and ho knew it.
Without a moment's hesitation he broke
the fruit in two and clapped one portion
of it upon the lady's head. The cooling
application was 'just tho thing. Tho
lady recovered consciousness promptly,
and if she failed to thank the darkey,
her besmeared condition may have had
something to do with it lhe darney
didn't mind the neglect, though smiling
benignautly he sat still, gnawing away
at the remaining half of his melon and
proud in tli6 consciousness of having
dono a good deed. And it was a good
deed so far as his intentions went xh n
to divide his watermelon there is no
greater proof of wlf-deuial in the Fif
teenth amendment.